So the police in small towns would have to figure out a new way to shake down out of towners than a speed trap where it instantly drops from 55 to 35? I wonder just how the police are going to spin this once they realize that they can no longer write speeding tickets if this goes through?

/ironically enough I was listening to Moving Pictures this morning & Red Barchetta was playing when I read this//it would be kind of funny watching a place where the speed did drop 20mph instantly & watching all the cars slam on their brakes. Can you sue the .gov for whiplash?

There are already insurance companies that give a discount for putting a GPS monitor in your car that tells them how fast you drive.

One of the companies doesn't care how fast you drive. The tattletale box is telling them how hard you brake. Hard braking is more likely to mean "not paying attention to driving" than "likes to slow at the last moment on approach to a loop ramp."

Recoil Therapy:So the police in small towns would have to figure out a new way to shake down out of towners than a speed trap where it instantly drops from 55 to 35? I wonder just how the police are going to spin this once they realize that they can no longer write speeding tickets if this goes through?

/ironically enough I was listening to Moving Pictures this morning & Red Barchetta was playing when I read this//it would be kind of funny watching a place where the speed did drop 20mph instantly & watching all the cars slam on their brakes. Can you sue the .gov for whiplash?

Recoil Therapy:So the police in small towns would have to figure out a new way to shake down out of towners than a speed trap where it instantly drops from 55 to 35? I wonder just how the police are going to spin this once they realize that they can no longer write speeding tickets if this goes through?

/ironically enough I was listening to Moving Pictures this morning & Red Barchetta was playing when I read this//it would be kind of funny watching a place where the speed did drop 20mph instantly & watching all the cars slam on their brakes. Can you sue the .gov for whiplash?

Once they can no longer bust people for pot possession and sell all their assets at auction, cops are going to be stepping up ticketing of speeders to make up for budget shortfalls. And, their aint shiat you can do about it when municipalities make it more expensive to contest it in court than to just pay the ticket.

Why have cars read signs? Google maps already knows the speed limit on every road in the world, so how cannot the cars of tomorrow simply maintain the speed limit, since they will always know where they are anyway?

Ah Europe. Lets put a GPS unit in every vehicle(in transport trucks now) to charge a road toll via where you drive. But comes with some basic privacy laws to prevent scraping all that data.

In North America, lets put in a GPS unit for tolls and scrape the f*ck out of that data for profit and long term tracking by the police for that one time you chopped up that hooker who was already dead on the side of the road and the dent on your car came from them damn kids and their dog.

/Interesting fact: A proper enforcement on speed zone changes, results in the area 300 feet on either side of the speed change sign to be a non-enforceable zone.//disclaimer: 'reasonable speed'(accelerate or decelerate zone). At the school zone sign, you'd better be at the slower speed instantly due to its short distance of slowness along with stupid young roadmeat who rely on signs to keep them safe instead of knowledge and opening their f*cking eyes for once.

My GPS already reminds me when I'm more than 12 over the limit. It's pretty nice except when the GPS has the wrong info for road speed. What would be really nice is if the GPS would warn me ahead of time when the limit goes from 55 to 35 just outside some little rural town because they get pissed off when I cruise through at 64 mph.

Mr. Eugenides:My GPS already reminds me when I'm more than 12 over the limit. It's pretty nice except when the GPS has the wrong info for road speed. What would be really nice is if the GPS would warn me ahead of time when the limit goes from 55 to 35 just outside some little rural town because they get pissed off when I cruise through at 64 mph.

Recoil Therapy:Somacandra: FTFA: It then deploys one of three controls to slow drivers: 'advice', in which the motorist is simply notified of the speed limit by an alarm, giving them the opportunity to slow down

I think this part of it might be a good idea..

No because if a system like this can be abused by the .gov, eventually it will be abused by the .gov

While the switch may start out in the 'advice' position, within a few years it will be mandated to be in the ... er.'mandatory' position.

All 'for the children' of course.....

It's a good idea to consider how the government could abuse this, and get the laws done right the first time around.

Why anyone would be against cars that refuses to let people drive drunk, massively abuse speed limits or drive into other vehicles is beyond me though. Sure, the usual clowns in the UK is against it because "big brother", but they're probably unable to qualify why exactly these measures are a bad idea (hopefully we'll see Scotland gain independence, and England leaving the EU. Imagine the bliss...).